Quote:Og, tell me you do not have a Deepwood Sniper. WHY WOULD YOU FUCKING DO THAT? I am sweating.
Before I ever played the game, I decided I would be a ranger, and I would take the Deepwood Sniper PrE. I tried. I leveled up, carefully planning out my progression and how I would fit in the pre-reqs. Since I started with F2P, and I had read lots of posts by the devs about how they would fill in all of the missing PrEs, I was
sure that it was just a matter of time. I played pretty slowly, so it was all good.
Months went by. I took the 1st tier and thought "Huh, this is kind of craptastic." No worries though, the devs were working on it. Surely this was just a precursor to the awesomesauce they had planned for tier 2!
12th level came and went, and there was no 2nd tier. AA was released, but of course my archer didn't qualify because I didn't want to be a candy-ass magic-using pansy and I had planned to be a Deepwoods Sniper, dammit. I played for several more months realizing with greater and greater certainty that: my archery sucked, my PrE was a deceptive, shitty piece of crap that tried to trick me into believing that exactly two shots every 2 minutes might somehow make a difference, I did more with TWF even though I never did a single thing to improve my TWF, the promise of completed PrEs was a hopeless pipe dream fed to burnt out MMO junkies to string them along, and the devs could no more make good on their plans than I could fuck Michele Obama in the ass tonight*.
After that point I used a few feat respecs to make my melee a bit more respectable, and then promptly TRed when I reached 20th so that I could make a bona fide TWF character that wasn't just a flavor build.
I still twitch a little when I think about Deepwoods Sniper. Even so, if they ever release all three tiers and manage to make it at least acceptable without some bizarre monk splash, I'll probably go back. I still want to be a Deepwoods Sniper, dammit!
* - I wouldn't normally say such things, but I had to make sure this was Vault-friendly. You know how it is.